Brackley No. 1
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: under the arcade, all around
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: broken off in some areas
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BBU01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: there has been some re-carving under the arches
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R01: design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: all around
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view of font - northwest side
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12552BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Hinton-in-the-Hedges [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. John
Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel, in the SW corner of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545112
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Notes: The CRSBI notes: "The Hospital of St James and St John was founded c.1150 by Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester. In 1484 it was given to Magdalen College, Oxford and by 1548 there was a school on the site. The church was formerly chapel to the Hospital of St James and St John. Dedication to St John recorded in 1523."
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 32 km WSW of Northampton
Additional Comments: altered font: nase is modern replacement
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 has: "The church of St. Peter is an ancient building, with a low embattled tower, and contains a Norman font of curious design: St. James', formerly a parochial church, is now a chapel of ease." [NB: it is possible that the Norman font now at St. John's Chapel may have been in St. Peter's at the time, unless it was a mistake by Lewis]. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) mention the font in the Chapel of St. James, obviously referring to the same location as the CRSBI below: "Circular, Norman, with intersected arches and below them a band of long barbaric trail." The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008), however, remarks that only the basin is medieval, and dates it to ca. 1200. The basin is bucket-shaped, and is decorated with a band of dog-tooth pattern all around the upper rim; the side has a blind arcade of intersecting round arches below which, and, at times, apparently linking with the support-less arches, are acanthus tendrils or vine; the bottom of the side appears to have e moulding, but it is worn and damaged; the base is, as indicated in the CRSBI, modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI]
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/reports.asp?compid=50818] [accessed 18 January 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 117